Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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... brought 50,000 people to Springfield . He greeted them ; the " fight for this cause " would go on " though I be dead and gone . " He ended : " You will kindly let me be silent . " Follet , Foster & Company announced a biography of ...
... brought 50,000 people to Springfield . He greeted them ; the " fight for this cause " would go on " though I be dead and gone . " He ended : " You will kindly let me be silent . " Follet , Foster & Company announced a biography of ...
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... brought him word that the long trenches in front of Cold Harbor were empty . Grant was gone . A long march , and the wide James River crossed , brought Grant's army to the Petersburg defenses of Richmond . In four days of assaults ...
... brought him word that the long trenches in front of Cold Harbor were empty . Grant was gone . A long march , and the wide James River crossed , brought Grant's army to the Petersburg defenses of Richmond . In four days of assaults ...
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... brought to bear on Lincoln to reverse or modify this policy of Grant . Arguments based on political power and made in the name of reason , cries and prayers for the sake of humanity , rang in his ears . But Lincoln stood by his general ...
... brought to bear on Lincoln to reverse or modify this policy of Grant . Arguments based on political power and made in the name of reason , cries and prayers for the sake of humanity , rang in his ears . But Lincoln stood by his general ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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